Example sentences of "[vb base] to do [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you meet people from other countries , they understand what you mean if you say to do the legal thing , or the just thing , or the right thing , in certain ways , but it seems to me to be a slightly soggy , but nevertheless very important , British concept of doing the decent thing , which may be just , may be legal , may not be either of those two , but the British man has a very clear sense of what it entails . |
| 2 | There are now some 1500 hakims still practising their Byzantine medicine in Delhi , and they appear to do a thriving business . |
| 3 | Then they came and said , ‘ We want to do a second album ’ , and I really did n't want to do it , because I do n't want to be the next , let's say , Joe Satriani or Eric Johnson , even though those guys are really successful in their field . |
| 4 | She tells him For Women have been swamped with fan mail and want to do a contemporary shoot . |
| 5 | We all want to do a mighty work for God , but do not realise that we are living on privatised religious estates on the outskirts of the city of the world . |
| 6 | So I 'll explain how we want to do a three-page feature on , for the sake of argument , the literary genius of Melvyn Bragg . |
| 7 | Because , I want to do a little bit of that erm we are going |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a good thing you 're such a chaste little man-hater , Virginia , because the trouble is I want to do a whole lot more than just kiss you … ’ |
| 9 | And she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing . |
| 10 | ‘ At Reading the girl form the Clothes Show was talking to us and she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing ’ JOHN END |
| 11 | And she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing . |
| 12 | ‘ At Reading the girl form the Clothes Show was talking to us and she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing ’ JOHN END |
| 13 | Although he blamed himself rather than the department for his own failure , making comments like ‘ I 'm just not an academic basically ’ and ‘ I do n't think there 's a lot wrong with the course , if you want to do an academic course ’ , the path he saw himself as taking seemed directly opposed to the departmental ethos ; stating that he did n't want to do ‘ anything theoretical ’ , he told me that he wanted to train to be a nurse . |
| 14 | Now for copyright reasons , if you want to do the Blind Watchmaker , and I 'd very much like you to , you 've got ta borrow the disk from me , okay ? |
| 15 | The Czechoslovak voucher scheme , which will apportion shares in state enterprises to the general public , was received with scepticism by the Poles ( who want to do the same thing a different way ) and with disdain by the Hungarians ( who think state enterprises should simply be sold ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I wo n't run any of the major three championships after Barcelona , but I still want to do the big marathons , like London and New York . |
| 17 | You must tackle a warren as though you intend to do a good job at it ; there 's precious little point or pleasure in dabbling with it for that way you achieve very little . |
| 18 | I just know they like to do the whole family . |
| 19 | same sort of direction continue to do the same sort of things . |
| 20 | ’ Six o'clock — off we go to do the usual patrol . |
| 21 | Me and the missus , we usually try to do the Daily Mirror Quick Crossword of an evening . ’ |
| 22 | I mean I use to do a full time job outside the home , then come back and do all the housework and the washing and the children . |
| 23 | There is an unbelievable variety of skeg shapes available which all aim to do the same job , namely , keep the board sailing in a straight line . |
| 24 | But I 've been back recently as a teacher so it 's I 've to do a quick change act from a twin-set and pearls into a beret and er smock to become an artist . |
| 25 | It 's okay I mean it it , okay in the parts , but when you come to do a like essays and things about it 's very helpful because of the |
| 26 | Toolbars are a helpful addition ; each one provides access to the tools you need to do a specific job . |
| 27 | I have the information I need to do a good job . |
| 28 | if you need to do a phonemic analysis you must decide which sounds are in contrast ( belonging to different phonemes ) , and which are variants ( belonging to the same phoneme ) . |
| 29 | It is unlikely to solve specific problems for which you need to do an individual analysis . |
| 30 | It 's just to split the recommendation up to make sure we 've got the authorities we need to do the whole lot I think Chairman . |